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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Get Traction After We Have A Few Paying Customers?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Get Traction After We Have A Few Paying Customers? How did the best start-ups I’ve worked at $200m+ today … get to their first $1m-$2m ARR? But he learned he was good at SDRs and outbound. So he hired 10 SDRs before he ever hired an AE or a marketing head. It helped me a lot.

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Why Human Beings Provide More Value Than Automation In Complex Sales

Iannarino

As you decide whether (and how) to use automation, you should consider both the nature of the communication and your overall client engagement model. The nature of my relationship with this company is purely transactional, though I am a little disappointed every time Mr. Bezos fails to send me a “Have a Pleasant Winter Solstice” card.

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“This Is The Way We Have Always Done Things….”

Partners in Excellence

This particular conversation was about SDRs, with one person saying, “SDRs have always been an entry level position and always should be.” ” Another person was suggesting, “But it’s one of the most difficult roles, particularly if we expect them to engage senior level executives.

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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

We’ve always had specialists in sales and specialization is important. But in the past 15 years, we seem to have gone off the rails with our specialization. The customer has become almost irrelevant, instead, we have optimized roles for moving our customer through our sales assembly line.

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The “Sales Tolerance Stack Up Problem”

Partners in Excellence

So in designing products, we would always specify the acceptable tolerances for the part. For example, if we wanted to drill a hole in the center of a square plate, we would identify both the size of the hole and the exact center of the hole, +/- a certain tolerance. This impacts every product we manufacture.

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Is Prospecting Really The Toughest Thing In Sales?

Partners in Excellence

Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. But is it really tougher than anything else in selling or are we just making it much tougher than it need be? Or possibly we just do a terrible job at prospecting, making it much more difficult than it should be?

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Sales Is A Human Process

Partners in Excellence

In the past 10 years, we’ve done everything we can to take the “human” out of complex B2B selling. We’ve mechanized the process, focusing on our efficiency and less the customer buying experience. We focus on the numbers and not what the numbers mean. And we are still failing.

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